Ep. 159 Surviving the White Gaze with Rebecca Carroll

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today Rebecca Carroll. Rebecca is a writer, cultural critic, and podcaster. She is the author of multiple books including her memoir which came out in February and is titled Surviving the White Gaze. We discuss her life as a Black child adopted into a white family, how she continues to interrogate the white gaze, and her 2020 podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll.

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0:00.0	If you love the stacks, you're going to love Lit Society.
0:02.6	Lit Society is the weekly book podcast hosted by best friends,
0:05.8	Kari and Alexis.
0:07.2	Within each episode, they dive into a spoiler-filled discussion
0:10.7	of a different book.
0:11.8	Reading everything from fiction to nonfiction,
0:14.3	romance to mystery, they even give you dramatic readings
0:17.2	of their favorite passages, complete with sound effects.
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0:29.4	Subscribe to Lit Society, Books and Drama,
0:32.2	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.6	MUSIC
0:42.8	Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books
0:45.1	and the people who read them.
0:46.4	I'm your host, Tracey Thomas, and our guest today
0:48.6	is Rebecca Carroll.
0:50.1	Rebecca is a writer, cultural critic, creative consultant,
0:53.4	editor at large, and a podcaster.
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